Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction. The Bible in the West: a peoples' history? / Mark Vessey -- pt. 1. Biblical possessions. Perhaps God is Irish: Sacred texts as virtual reality machine / Donald Harman Akenson -- Protestant Restorationism and the Ortelian mapping of Palestine (with an afterword on Islam) / Nabil I. Matar -- Beyond a shared inheritance: American Jews reclaim the Hebrew Bible / Laura S. Levitt -- Recalling the nation's terrain: narrative, territory, and canon (commentary on part one) / Robert A. Daum -- pt. 2. 2. Confounding narratives. Dominion from sea to sea: Eusebius of Caesarea, Constantine the Great, and the exegesis of empire / Harry O. Maier -- Unending sway: the ideology of empire in early Christian Latin thought / Karla Pollmann -- 'The ends of the Earth': the Bible, Bibles, and the other in early Medieval Europe / Ian Wood -- Promised lands, premised texts (commentary on part two) / Mark Vessey -- pt. 3. Colonial and postcolonial readings, premodern ironies. The Amerindian in divine history: the limits of Biblical authority in the Jesuit Mission to New France, 1632-1649 / Peter A. Goddard -- Joshua in America: on cowboys, Canaanites, and Indians / Laura E. Donaldson -- Premodern ironies: first nations and chosen peoples / Jace Weaver -- Biblical narrative and the (de)stabilization of the colonial subject (commentary on part three) / Harry O. Maier -- Epilogue: 'Paradise Highway': of global cities and postcolonial reading practices / Sharon V. Betcher.

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